Greenhouse Potatoes
Wednesday, February 11, 2009 Filed in: Greenhouse
For a change, let’s start with the finished product, circa August 18, 2008
Some shiny purple potatoes in a colander. These were very good to eat. We ate potatoes. We had potato soup. Some is still in the freezer and it is delicious. We tried drying them in the dehydrator - not worth it.
The ones we didn’t wash and didn’t eat, which looked like they might make good seed for ’09 were stored in a box in the basement. In the beginning of ’09, I noticed that they were going to seed and wouldn’t make it until Spring. I took some to a friend who has a cooler spot, and some I tried to save, by planting right away in the deeper bed in the greenhouse. In a few weeks, one or two came up and were promptly killed by too little heat on a really cold night.
I’d been told that if the potato plant is not too big when its frozen, it will come back. And without any special incantations (besides the usual loving pep talk I always give the plants) look, it is growing back!
Yes, that very rough looking ground is in the greenhouse bed. After I remove the potatoes I’ll take care of that. Preparing for the onion bed taught me how to do that. (Details on another post.)
It is possible that new potatoes and seed for the garden will be ready on time for planting on April First.
